
It was then removed on May 23, 2010, initially replacing Pac-Man with the normal logo. Pressing it for a third time performed an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. Pac-Man, enabling two players to play at once, controlled using the W, A, S, D keys, instead of the arrows as used by Player 1. Pressing it once more added a second player, Ms. Pressing this once enabled you to play the Pac-Man logo. The " I'm Feeling Lucky" button was replaced with an "Insert Coin" button. The logo also mimicked the sounds the original arcade game made. Anyone who visited Google could play Pac-Man on the logo, which featured the letters of the word "Google" on the Pac-Man maze. In May 2010, on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, Google unveiled worldwide their first interactive logo, created in association with Namco. These doodlers have included artists like Ekua Holmes, Jennifer Hom, Sophia Foster-Dimino, Ranganath Krishnamani, Dennis Hwang, Olivia Fields, and Eric Carle. The illustrators, engineers, and artists who design Google Doodles are called "Doodlers".

Olympic Games (2000–present partial exception in 2014).International Women's Day (2005 2009–present).Valentine's Day (2000–present partial exception during certain Olympic years).Since Google first celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with a Doodle in 1998, many Doodles for holidays, events and other celebrations have recurred on an annual basis, including the following: Common themes įor New Year's 2014, Google created this animated image depicting dancing numbers.

Some Google Doodles are limited to Google's country-specific home pages while others appear globally. The celebration of historic events is another common topic of Google Doodles including a Lego brick design in celebration of the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary. Google Doodles are also used to depict major events at Google, such as the company's own anniversary. The featuring of Lowell's logo design coincided with the launch of another Google product, Google Maps. Wells, Freddie Mercury, Samuel Morse, Hans Christian Ørsted, Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Gabor, Édith Piaf, Constantin Brâncuși, Antonio Vivaldi, Abdel Halim Hafez, Teresa Teng, Umm Kalthoum, Jules Verne, Leonhard Euler, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, and James Welch, among over 9,000 others. In addition to celebrating many well-known events and holidays, Google Doodles celebrate artists and scientists on their birthdays, including Mary Somerville, Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Rabindranath Tagore, Louis Braille, Ella Fitzgerald, Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch, Nikola Tesla, Béla Bartók, René Magritte, Norman Hetherington, John Lennon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Steve Irwin, Audrey Hepburn, Michael Jackson, Vladimir Dakhno, Robert Moog, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frankie Manning, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, H. By 2019, the "Doodlers" team had created over 4,000 doodles for Google's homepages around the world. By 2014, Google had published over 2,000 regional and international Doodles throughout its homepages, often featuring guest artists, musicians, and personalities. The first interactive Doodle appeared shortly thereafter celebrating Pac-Man, and hyperlinks also began to be added to Doodles, usually linking to a search results page for the subject of the Doodle. In January 2010 the first animated Doodle honored Sir Isaac Newton. Doodles increased in both frequency and complexity by the beginning of the 2010s. Initially, Doodles were neither animated nor hyperlinked-they were simply images with hover text describing the subject or expressing a holiday greeting. Since then, a team of employees called " Doodlers" have organized and published the Doodles. Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor until 2001, when Page and Brin asked public relations officer Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day. Early Marketing employee Susan Wojcicki then spearheaded subsequent Doodles, including an alien landing on Google and additional custom logos for major holidays. The first Google Doodle honored the 1998 edition of the long-running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada, and was designed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. The first Google Doodle, on August 30, 1998, which celebrated Burning ManĪ Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures.
